Title

Blondin carrying Colcord over the Niagara River

Date

1977

18590817

Creator

Campbell, Donna Marie

Extent

24.47 x 35.29 cm

Is Part Of

Watercolour Collection

Description

en-CA Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Government of Canada Local Initiatives Grant AK 2403-9 1974 - 1975 ; Artistic recreation based on a stereograph by Platt D Babbit held at the Earl W Brydges Public Library Niagara Falls NY ; Research by George Seibel ; On Wednesday August 17th, 1859 Blondin carried Harry Colcord on his back, Colcord weighed 145 pounds. The portion of the trip over the centre of the rope where there were no guys was especially thrilling as Colcord recounts: "The guy lines, placed twenty feet apart, kept the rope comparitively steady till we reached the space of forty feet in the centre when there were no guy lines. We had made about ten feet of this forty when suddenly Blondin tottered and swayed in an effort to walk straight, his pole going furiously up and down" - excerpted from Anthology & Bibliography of Niagara Falls by Dow Volume 1 page 387" ; /<i8>

Type

Still Image

Medium

Watercolour

Subject

Niagara River - Lower

Stunts and Stunters

Location

CA

Canada - Ontario - Niagara Falls

Identifier

http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/show.asp?b=1&ref=oo&id=102711

locator

WC 3

Date Created

2005-02-09

Date Modified

2005-02-09